Final Placement Report

Batch of 2012-2014

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta





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OVERVI EW

IIM Calcuttas final placements for the batch of 2012-2014 kicked off on 7th February, 2014. A
total of 426 students sought for jobs through the placement cell, making it one of the largest
batches across all IIMs. More than 250 firms participated in the process this year. Prior to the
start of the slot-based process, lateral placements were conducted for students with prior work-
experience.
A total of 465 job offers were made to the 426 students through the placement process. 112
students had already received pre-placement offers (PPOs) based on their performance
during their summer internships. 124 offers were made in the lateral placements process and
229 offers in the final placement process.
Total number of candidates who sought for jobs through the placement
cell
426
Total number of offers made through the placement process 465
Candidates who secured jobs 426






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FUNCTI ON WI SE BREAK-UP OF OFFERS



Offers from finance, consulting and marketing domains accounted for a quarter of the batch
getting placed in each of these areas. 11% of the candidates were placed in general
management roles and about 4% each in analytics, operations and technology.

LATERAL PLACEMENTS

The lateral placement process is primarily facilitated for candidates having prior work
experience, where candidates are offered lateral entries depending upon the relevance,
nature and duration of their prior work-experience. During the laterals process, candidates and
firms are allowed to negotiate the nature of roles and their packages, as opposed to final
placements where firms hire for explicit positions. In this way, the laterals process allows
candidates to design their own roles and responsibilities, and ensures a perfect fit between the
candidate and the job. 124 offers were made in this laterals process.
Finance: Lateral placements this year saw finance roles being offered by firms such as HSBC,
Amazon, Yes Bank, Dunia Finance, Star TV, Prop Tiger, Mother Diary, etc. Dunia Finance, an
Abu Dhabi based firm in the financial services domain hired for their leadership roles.
General Management roles were offered by leading corporate houses such as Aditya Birla
Group, Mahindra, Hinduja, Adani Group, Cipla, Ericsson, L&T among others. Mahindra Comiva,
a leading mobile services provider recruited students for the position of Country Lead, who will
head their business in emerging countries in Africa.
Sales & Marketing
27%
General
Management
11%
Operations
4%
Consulting
25%
Finance
23%
Technology
5%
Others
1%
Analytics
4%
Functional-split of offers to candidates

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Consulting: Deloitte, Capgemini, Cognizant, KPMG, Tata Strategic Management Group
(TSMG) and WNS recruited for senior positions such as Consultant/Senior Consultant. Niche
consulting firm Vector Consulting Group offered their Business Consultant roles.
Technology firms like Microsoft, Google, Infosys, Mindtree, Info Edge, TCS, Virtusa and Sonata
Software made multiple offers to candidates at IIM-C. Infosys recruited from IIM Calcutta for
their niche Business Development associate role.
Sales & Marketing: Lateral offers from Sales & Marketing domain included firms such as Alshaya,
Dabur, Microsoft (SMSG), Amazon (Category Manager), Ranbaxy, Rational AG, Star TV, &
Sahara Q shop. Alshaya, a top retail franchise operator in the Middle East, hired for their Supply
Chain and Merchandise Planning roles.
Amazon offered 8 roles at IIM Calcutta for operations leadership program and business
development. Amazon made the highest number of offers on campus (16, including PPOs) for
these leadership and operations roles. Other notable firms which offered operations profile
were Jindal Steel, WNS, Yepme, and Unisys. Companies like Google, Capgemini and
Latentview recruited students for Data Analytics roles

FI NAL PLACEMENTS

The day-based final placements started on 7th February, 2014. This year, a second phase of
lateral placements conducted between Slot-0 and Slot-1. Overall, 229 offers were made in the
day-based finals process.
Finance: Continuing the legacy, IIM Calcutta lived up to its title of the finance campus of India.
IIMC received one of the highest number of offers in India for the strongly coveted Investment
Banking Divisions (IBD). Bucking the slowdown, finance companies flocked to recruit
candidates in large numbers from the Finance campus of country. Financial majors like Bank
of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs,
Edelweiss, HSBC, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, American
Express, Altisource, Ocwen Financial Services, Kotak IBD hired candidates for their Investment
banking and markets roles.
Optiver, one of worlds largest high frequency and proprietary trading firms based out of the
Netherlands, chose to recruit exclusively from IIM Calcutta. Macquarie Group Limited, a global
investment banking company and diversified financial services group, also chose to recruit
exclusively from IIM Calcutta through PPO.
BFSI firms such as Axis Bank, Kotak Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, HDFC Bank, Development Bank
of Singapore, IDBI, IndusInd Bank, recruited for their corporate banking and treasury divisions.
Insurance companies such as ICICI Prudential and Bharti AXA also participated. Diverse roles
were offered in the finance domain by companies like CRISIL, Airtel, Edutor, Flipkart, Magma
Fincorp and Wincere.
Consulting: IIM Calcutta saw the highest number of Pre-Placement offers (PPOs) in the
Management Consulting domain across all IIMs from the top 4 management consulting firms,
at 27. McKinsey & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co., A.T. Kearney, Accenture and

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Opera are the top recruiters in the consulting domain. The Boston Consulting Group and
Accenture Management Consulting made the highest number of offers in this domain at 12
each. Big data firm Opera Solutions LLC hired exclusively from IIM Calcutta.
Consulting roles were also offered by other firms such as GEP, Hay Group, Ernst & Young,
Deloitte US, Protiviti, PwC, KPMG & IBM. Protiviti offered international consulting roles based out
of UAE and Kuwait.
Sales & Marketing: The sales and marketing domain saw participation from all the major sectors
like FMCG, Media, Telecom, and Healthcare among others. All major recruiters in the FMCG
sector like P&G, HUL, ITC, Mondelez, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle reaffirmed their strong and
long lasting relationship with IIM Calcutta by recruiting in large numbers. Coveted sales and
marketing roles were offered by Pepsi, Asian Paints, Dabur, LOreal, Kellogg's, Jabong.com,
Emami, RPG, etc. as well.
Renowned media houses like Times Group, HT Media & Network18 recruited students for their
Sales & Marketing functions in the finals process, while Star India recruited in the laterals
process. Top telecom companies like Airtel and Vodafone recruited students in large numbers.
General Management: Coveted roles in general management by firms like TAS, Mahindra
Group, Airtel, RIL, CK Birla Group among others were offered to students of IIM Calcutta.
Reliance Industries Limited, Indias largest private sector company, reaffirmed its strong relation
with IIM Calcutta by recruiting 11 students for various roles. Other firms which offered general
management profiles were Altisource, Piramal Group, Kirloskar Group and Sharaf Group.
Sharaf Group recruited for their retail operations roles in the Middle East. Honda Motors hired
for the first time for roles based out of its Japan office.
Technology roles were offered by Microsoft, Wipro, HSBC, etc. Energy companies such as
Cairn, Power Grid, Gupta Power recruited for a wide range of roles. A notable development
was the participation of education based firms such as e-GMAT, Edutor, and Next India, who
hired for their leadership roles.
Several final year students were also selected to do an internship with Trinamool Congress.
They were to pursue this internship until their joining date at their full-time jobs.
The final placements had a star attraction on campus in the form of Mr. Sourav Ganguly who
came to recruit for a niche brand management and marketing role.


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BATCH PROFI LE

WORK EXPERI ENCE
Compared to the previous batch, this batch has a smaller fraction of students with no prior
work experience. Last year, that number was around 32%, while this year, it is 23%. It is
interesting to know that a considerable fraction (13%) of students have work experience of
more than 3 years, with some as high as 8 years of experience. The average work experience
of the batch is 21 months. This is a slight increase as compared to the previous year when the
average work experience was 18 months.


Zero (Freshers)
23%
1 - 12 Months
12%
13 - 24 Months
27%
25 - 36 Months
25%
36+ Months
13%
Work Experience (Duration)
Finance
9%
Consulting
17%
Engineering/
Manufacturing
18%
Systems/IT
41%
Others
15%
Work Experience (Sectors)

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PRI OR EDUCATI ON
Students from IIM Calcutta typically have a history of academic brilliance displayed all through
their educational years. Every year, the best students from Indias premier institutes are
admitted to the campus. This year too, a healthy 24% of the batch have received an IIT
degree, 13% of students are from NITs, while 53% of students have studied in other Indian
engineering colleges. The batch comprises of 94% students with an engineering background,
whereas 3% of students have a pure sciences background. The rest of the students (3%) have
degree in medicine, commerce, management or arts. There are also students with unorthodox
educational backgrounds like design engineering and hotel management.




CONCLUSI ON
Overall, IIM Calcutta has shown a great performance in the final placements owing to the
strong calibre of the students and the excellent academic standards on campus. Such
performance also portrays the strong relationship with industry and the vast alumni network of
the oldest IIM.


IITs
24%
NITs
13%
Commerce
2%
Medicine
0%
Others
53%
Science
3%
Arts/
Management
1%
Overseas
4%
Academic Background